Date & Time
Oct 26, 2020
2:00PM - 5:00PM
Location
Live Webcast
Additional session at 2:00 pm on Wednesday, Oct 28
The Annual Symposium is designed to foster understanding and collaboration around current health care practice and research in New York, build bridges among health services researchers and practitioners, and showcase the New York health services research community.
Agenda and presenters listed below; also available as a pdf here. A news story on the event is available here.
Monday, October 26
Monday Keynote
Katherine Baicker, PhD, Dean and Emmett Dedmon Professor, University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy
Dr. Baicker, a nationally renowned health care economist, discussed health reform, improved value, and decreased spending in the context of the COVID-19 era. Her keynote examined provider, payer, and taxpayer perspectives on the current pandemic and its potential impact on the health care environment and coverage approaches, including further Medicaid expansion, a public option, or a single-payer system.
Monday Research Presentations Caregiver Knowledge of Social Services at time of Pediatric Social Determinants of Health Screening
Andrew Nastro, MD, Fellow, Academic General Pediatrics, NYU Langone/Bellevue Hospital Center
Panel - Health Care Workforce
- Gender Differences in New Physician Income
David Armstrong, PhD, Project Director, Center for Health Workforce Studies, University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY) - Quality of Primary Care for Medicaid Enrollees in New York: A Comparison Between Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, and Physician Assistants
Shen Wang, MPH, MPA, Research Associate, Center for Health Workforce Studies, University at Albany, SUNY - Experiences of Home Health Care Workers in New York City During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic
Emily Tseng, PhD Student in Computer and Information Science, Cornell Tech - COVID-19 Impacts on New York Medicaid Providers: Health Care Transformation Through Expanded Scope of Practice and Telemedicine
Robert Martiniano, DrPH, MPA, Senior Program Manager, Center for Health Workforce Studies, University at Albany, SUNY
Monday Lightning Round: COVID-19 and Hospitals - Hospitalization Events Following Community-Based Testing in the New York COVID-19 Pandemic Outbreak
Aya Haghamad, PharmD, Clinical Solutions Specialist, Northwell Health Laboratory - Early Experience with a Hospital-based COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma Treatment Program
Rachel Vancavage, MPH, Clinical Research Coordinator, Albany Medical Center - Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies and Associated Epidemiological Factors Among Healthcare Workers at a Large Health Care System in Connecticut
Pavlos Papasavas, MD, FACS, Director of Surgical Research, Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery, University of Connecticut - Successful Long-Range Triage of COVID-19 Patients: An Experience of >150 Mile Transfer in New York State
Michael W. Dailey, MD, FACEP, FAEMS, Chief, Division of Prehospital and Operational Medicine, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Albany Medical College
Wednesday October 28
Wednesday Keynote
Dr. Moro O. Salifu, Professor & Chairman, Department of Medicine, Edwin C. and Anne K. Weiskopf Endowed Chair in Nephrology, Chief, Division of Nephrology, State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Health Sciences University, and Director of the Brooklyn Health Disparities Center
Dr. Salifu discussed the history of systemic racism that underlies the disproportionate impact of COVID on marginalized populations. He discussed how policies to protect these populations during the pandemic were insufficient, and how that reality can inform the health system focus on social determinants of health moving forward.
Wednesday Research Presentations Views on the Need to Implement Restriction Policies to Be Able to Address COVID-19 In the United States
Vivian Hsing-chun Wang, PhD Student, School of Global Public Health, New York University
Panel – Care Across Settings During the Pandemic
- Addressing Household Food Insecurity Through a Clinical-Community Partnership in Response to COVID-19
Emma Hulse, Manager, Center for Community Health, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital - COVID-19 and Chronic Disease in New York City: A Need to Strengthen Primary Care Systems to Address Deepening Health Disparities
Angela Allard, Program Evaluations Analyst, Primary Care Development Corporation - Improving and Expediting Critical Decisions for Hospital Admissions During the COVID-19 Surge
Cristy Meyer, RN, MSN, CEN, TCRN, Trauma Program Manager, Department of Surgery - Trauma - Critical Care, Northwell Health, North Shore University Hospital; and Alanna Carcich, Administrative Director, Orthopedic Service Line, Northwell Health, Northshore University Hospital - Caring Connections: Improving Patient/Family Communications Using iPads During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Noreen B. Brennan, PhD, RN-BC, NEA-BC, Chief Nursing Officer, NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan
Wednesday Lightning Round: Virtual Care & Connections During COVID - A Novel Workflow and Barriers Observed for Remote Telemedicine Enrollment Seen in One New York City Hospital Cohort During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Jordan Francke, MD, MPH, University of California, Los Angeles - From In-Person to Virtual Delivery: How Organizations Serving Populations Disproportionately Impacted by COVID-19 Were Able to Adapt their National Diabetes Prevention Programs
Maria Regalado, MPH, Clinical Community Program Linkages Manager, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Implementing a Call Center to Promote Equitable Health Access for Patients in Neighborhoods with Disproportionate COVID-19 Impact
Jill Linnell, MPH, Senior Manager, Patient Engagement Programs, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
For questions about the event, please contact Hollis Holmes at 212-494-0761 or symposium@uhfnyc.org.
